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John Carter McKnight
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This is an astonishingly good book. It's clear, comprehensive, and useful for *anyone* working in a space field, not just the practicing lawyers it's aimed at. Beginning with an overview of space history, the authors briefly and lucidly spell out key...more |
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John Carter McKnight
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A highly readable book, particularly suited to anyone curious about space exploration but not deeply embedded in it. A quick read, a breezy style, and good information. Aldrin has done a heroic amount of great work over decades to develop and advance...more |
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John Carter McKnight
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| I can't pass judgment on the quality of Sandberg's advice for women, and the chapters on family and child-rearing are pretty far from my experience. That said, I read this on the advice of a family member who suggested it'd give me insights into issu...more | |
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John Carter McKnight
rated a book 4 of 5 stars
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Feenberg's analysis and critique of theories of technology is strong and tremendously useful: ranging from Marx to Ellul to Marcuse and Foucault, he provides incisive analyses while developing a "critical theory" of technology as a social force. Wher...more |
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John Carter McKnight
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| Tau Zero is much more engaging than it has any right to be. The characters are wooden, the exposition heavy-handed (there's a lot of "As you know..."), the plot minimal (A Thing happens, people deal with it). And yet, it's compelling, in a Golden Age...more | |
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John Carter McKnight
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Solove is one of the best scholars of American privacy law, and does a great public service in writing for a broad range of audiences, from practitioner to scholar to citizen. Nothing To Hide is a good overview of arguments for privacy protections ag...more |
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John Carter McKnight
rated a book 4 of 5 stars
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| Excellent literature review, critique and theory in the philosophy of technology. Verbeek falls into a good spot for me in his critique of actor-network theory (things and humans are *not* the same sorts of actants), anti-technology romanticism (agai...more | |
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This is my favorite book.
... Okay, that's not a review. Let me explain why this is my favorite book. Distraction paints a picture of a world gone down the tubes in an all too familiar way, but unlike the usual dystopian moanings, Sterling has the g... " Read more of this review » |
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Jaron Lanier is very angry about computers. While this book is a necessary antidote to the usual silicon valley cyber-utopianism, Lanier is not nearly as smart as he thinks he is, and this manifesto is plagued by conceptual and organizational diff...
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“Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of time and besides it annoys the pig.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
― Robert A. Heinlein
“I have sought to offer humanists a detailed analysis of a technology sufficiently magnificent and spiritual to convince them that the machines by which they are surrounded are cultural artifacts worthy of their attention and respect.”
― Bruno Latour, Aramis, or the Love of Technology
― Bruno Latour, Aramis, or the Love of Technology
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